Initialization file issue
  • bluecodebluecode August 2011
    Hi guys

    I'm loading a bunch of string from an .ini which goes well until the last value is read. On this all previous values are set to the last string loaded.

    eg

    ini file
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    [strings]
    SOME_STRING_1=green
    SOME_STRING_2=blue
    SOME_STRING_3=red

    cpp code
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    SOME_STRING_1 = hge->Ini_GetString("strings","SOME_STRING_1","Apple");
    SOME_STRING_2 = hge->Ini_GetString("strings","SOME_STRING_2","Orange");
    SOME_STRING_3 = hge->Ini_GetString("strings","SOME_STRING_3","Pear");


    If you dump the value of SOME_STRING_1 to a log mid load it will read the value in the ini "green", but after all loads are complete the value of SOME_STRING_1 is now red.

    Anyone have any idea what's going on?
  • ProfEclipseProfEclipse August 2011
    Ini_GetString returns a pointer to a statically allocated buffer. You need to copy the string to your own buffer.
  • kvakvskvakvs August 2011
    ProfEclipse said:

    Ini_GetString returns a pointer to a statically allocated buffer. You need to copy the string to your own buffer.


    that,
    or start using c++ and c++ strings, and stop using C strings. C++ strings do copying automatically.
  • bluecodebluecode August 2011
    Thanks guys.

    I've solved it, using strcpy_s() to move the string.
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